WASHINGTON ― After Senate Democrats voted for a three-week government funding extension Monday, Republicans and liberal progressives seemed to agree about one thing: Democrats had caved. How is it that a shutdown was bad for moderate Democratic senators up for reelection and that ending a shutdown is also bad for those lawmakers? The Democratic position of not voting for a government funding bill until there’s a DACA deal seems much more reasonable if there’s actual legislation that’s passed the Senate and is being ignored in the House. Republicans and Democrats still don’t have a spending agreement to raise caps lawmakers set in 2011. It may be tempting to insist that Democrats should have pressed on with the shutdown strategy until they got everything they wanted.

Source: Huffington Post January 22, 2018 22:41 UTC